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  • Now, as Langdon approached the stationary escalators, he paused, realizing Fache was no longer beside him.†   (source)
  • "Mental," Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.†   (source)
  • But if I look past the buzzing machine monotonously unzipping the crusted soil, at the field itself and the fields around it, I remember that the seemingly stationary fields are always flowing toward one farmer and away from another.†   (source)
  • On top of it, the gargoyles remained stationary.†   (source)
  • Across the street, the green blobs of light are stationary, clustered together as if locked in conversation.†   (source)
  • No one inside the near-stationary vehicles had started to react.†   (source)
  • The colossal speed had been their own, relative to the glow of light which was a stationary hole in the ground, the mouth of the tunnel.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Ender had only a single starship and eight fighters; once the enemy dodged through an asteroid belt; sometimes the enemy left stationary traps, large installations that blew up if Ender brought one of his squadrons too close, often crippling or destroying some of Ender's ships.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were still very wild and she was turning her head from side to side, trying to work out where the stationary car was taking her, looking for familiar landmarks along the imaginary route.†   (source)
  • Now, do these cameras have to be stationary?†   (source)
  • I eventually learned the moving and stationary parts, the chemistry of oils and solutions, tool and grindwheel and magnifying techniques.†   (source)
  • "Just a little short cut," he said, as we made our way past barns and stationary farm vehicles.†   (source)
  • "In combat your enemy won't be stationary," he said now, looking the boy in the eye.†   (source)
  • Either the car is moving or it's stationary.†   (source)
  • Even after Shirakawa has left, our point of view remains in the lavatory, and, as a stationary camera, continues to capture the dark mirror.†   (source)
  • They touched swords, and the man in black immediately began the Agrippa defense, which Inigo felt was sound, considering the rocky terrain, for the Agrippa kept the feet stationary at first, and made the chances of slipping minimal.†   (source)
  • We drive through the gardens and outbuildings that surround it, and peeking out from behind the edge of the compound are the airplanes, white and stationary.†   (source)
  • Others were on the steps, going down, coming up, stationary, peering at each other like half-blinded birds and setting up a hideous whirr, as of flying feathers and boastful wings.†   (source)
  • On Monday through Thursday, I would do stationary running in mycell in the morning for up to forty-five minutes.†   (source)
  • "It is the brightest stationary point in Boston," Sam said.†   (source)
  • Exhausted but too buzzed to sleep, I pulled out some stationary: Dearest Adam, Always great to hear from you.†   (source)
  • Then came the roaring impression of speed, of rushing bushes that gathered themselves and ran back past the car while, working under full power, it stood stationary, as it seemed to Johnnie, in the middle of a long, dusty gray ribbon that was the road.†   (source)
  • He knew he was only a stationary object, a surface for their carom shots.†   (source)
  • I took my first shot at a stationary target—hit.†   (source)
  • They had to master one-thousand-meter stalks with a two-hour time limit; photographing or "killing" moving, stationary, and pop-up targets ranging from one hundred to twelve hundred yards out; and building ghillie suits that matched the environment.†   (source)
  • My mother's lists had taken over the house, yellow stick-it notes flapping from anything that was stationary and big enough to hold them.†   (source)
  • Milkman fantasized too, but not for the stationary things Guitar described.†   (source)
  • Were you stationary at the first spot that you stopped at, at that point, or had you been moved?†   (source)
  • I had to zigzag between their stationary bodies, no one being considerate enough to step aside for even a millisecond.†   (source)
  • In the distance, she saw the lights of a shrimp trawler moving so slowly it almost seemed stationary.†   (source)
  • Green slime grew in the canals and joints between slabs, along the lower edges of building columns, on anything stationary the water reached, which varied with the season.†   (source)
  • These include the stationary rotor elements and spanner units going to mark twelve.†   (source)
  • He could not account for the cloud remaining stationary for so long, unless, he speculated, "the vast amount of arms collected in and about the city held it by attraction and drew from it such a fearful amount of electricity."†   (source)
  • Even at this hour there was steam rising from the stationary and portable food stands that offered everything from rice noodles to soydogs for the teeming crowds.†   (source)
  • Before Bernardine could object further, Medusa's Delta crawled out into the dark boulevard, dark but for the harsh stationary beams of the searchlights, which were now angled on the flanks, thus actually enhancing Bourne's concealment.†   (source)
  • It was green, stationary, and located approximately where the van itself was parked.†   (source)
  • While I waited for him, I stared up at the two stars I could see and let my head slowly become stationary.†   (source)
  • These kids are getting accustomed to taking their time and shooting with a steady heart rate at stationary targets.†   (source)
  • Two soccer players commandeered the stationary bikes.†   (source)
  • When he had gone, she felt as if the motion of time were an oppressive weight in the stillness of the house, like a stationary, half-solid mass slithering slowly into some faint elongation by a tempo that left her no measure to know whether minutes had passed or hours.†   (source)
  • One of the individuals was entirely stationary, one appeared to be pacing slowly.†   (source)
  • "The Gudram Ring has settled into a stationary position in the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point," Dr. Heinsch rumbled, looking at his notes.†   (source)
  • It was a piece of Congressional-letterhead stationary, with the message scrawled in longhand.†   (source)
  • In his eyepiece [of the telescope] were windows and walls and rooftops, sometimes stationary, sometimes whizzing by at incredible speed.   (source)
    stationary = motionless
  • It kept her company on long evenings, as it did countless young people in the city who were likewise stranded in their homes, and she rode it far out into the world on otherwise solitary, stationary nights.   (source)
  • Harry did not like being stationary; walking had given the illusion that they had a goal.†   (source)
  • A faint rattling noise was coming from them, even though they were completely stationary.†   (source)
  • Three large clumps of stationary dots hover on the right side of the screen: the sleeping.†   (source)
  • Stoking the fire was about as fun as riding a stationary bike inside a baking oven.†   (source)
  • Their acceleration was so smooth it seemed they were stationary and the wall was racing toward them.†   (source)
  • I did my usual regimen of stationary running, skipping rope, sit-ups, and fingertip press-ups.†   (source)
  • Again, we alternated between taking five shots each at three stationary and two moving targets.†   (source)
  • They see a little kid, Juano, seated on a stationary bike pedaling frantically.†   (source)
  • He was a stationary target; he could break the trap!†   (source)
  • At 900 and 1,000 yards, the five targets remained stationary.†   (source)
  • Beyond these were the stationary lights of the Old City, the blurred floodlights of darkened piers.†   (source)
  • Bourne pushed the man back between the stationary automobiles to the Renault's aisle.†   (source)
  • Jason spun under a stationary car; between the wheels he could see the figure in black racing away.†   (source)
  • It was a stationary object.†   (source)
  • Admit-tedly, he spotted Crabbe and Goyle moving around the castle on their own more often than usual, sometimes remaining stationary in deserted corridors, but at these times Malfoy was not only nowhere near them, but impossible to locate on the map at all.†   (source)
  • Of course, this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen, my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table, drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary.†   (source)
  • As dawn was breaking on 7th March, a German patrol scouting ahead of the delayed troop movement to Apeldoorn spotted a stationary car on the road ahead.†   (source)
  • Harry could tell that they were Muggles because they remained quite stationary within their pictures, faded smiles and glazed eyes frozen on the paper.†   (source)
  • The target was plenty big—an expansive, stationary tarp—and it was less than ten feet from the side of the building.†   (source)
  • The object was stationary.†   (source)
  • Professor Sprout had the Prophet propped against a bottle of ketchup and was reading the front page with such concentration that she was not noticing the gentle drip of egg yolk falling into her lap from her stationary spoon.†   (source)
  • For a few seconds, the blue flames around them were blurred to resemble neon lines as the wall sped around; then, quite as suddenly as it had started, the rumbling stopped and everything became stationary once again.†   (source)
  • New gears engaged, and the claw transported the box to the far side of the vault, coming to a stop over a stationary conveyor belt.†   (source)
  • Harry realised he had been stationary in midair for over a minute, watching the progress of the match without sparing a thought for the whereabouts of the Snitch; horrified, he went into a dive and started circling the pitch again, staring around, trying to ignore the chorus now thundering through the stadium: 'WEASLEY IS OUR K1NC, WEASLEY IS OUR KING…'†   (source)
  • A scream came from the dark open space of the stationary car, it was drawn out into a cry, then a gasp, and then nothing.†   (source)
  • Figures fled from the stationary car in panic, and seconds later the screen was filled with a blinding explosion.†   (source)
  • The motorcycle landed on top of me again, roaring loudly, pulling me across the wet sand until it hit something stationary.†   (source)
  • Where Hard Tack had been tall, sleek, tapered, every line suggesting motion, his son was blunt, coarse, rectangular, stationary.†   (source)
  • Hearing the crash, the startled guard ran around the gatehouse and into the parking lot, shifting his eyes in all directions, then staring at the stationary Zia.†   (source)
  • A second blinking light, this one red and also stationary, was on the same road but some distance behind the van.†   (source)
  • The KGB commissar instantly complied with his remote; the picture remained stationary, shaky but constant.†   (source)
  • Through the frozen nights, over dying cities, knocking in vain at unanswering windows, beating on unechoing walls, rising above the roofs of lightless buildings and the skeletal girders of ruins, the plea went on crying through space, crying to the stationary motion of the stars, to the heatless fire of their twinkling: "Can you hear us, John Galt?†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Bourne's eyes were drawn to a series of headlights in the downpour that curved into the runway at the far end of the field and rapidly accelerated towards the stationary aircraft.†   (source)
  • Dimitri turned to the television set and the shakily stationary picture, his eyes now filled with anger.†   (source)
  • The multitude gradually, then gathering momentum, began reversing direction-then, as a single Bourne dropped to the ground, his eyes scanning the under sides of the stationary vehicles, the spewing flame beyond lighting up the open spaces.†   (source)
  • The second man had difficulty getting across the street; the traffic was heavier and slower due to the stationary ambulance and two additional vehicles blocking the normal flow near the entrance to the gardens.†   (source)
  • After two more shots at stationary targets and two at moving targets, I became spotter while Casanova shot.†   (source)
  • He started again, going back into the crowd of reporters and photographers, his eyes scanning the black tarmac below trousers and skirts, looking for an isolated container that remained stationary on the hard asphalt.†   (source)
  • At 700 yards, we hit three stationary targets again, but this time, the two movers would stop and go.†   (source)
  • It was the stationary signal, the beam a lost bird was to home into; it might be other things also-the next few minutes would tell.†   (source)
  • The fuel truck began backing away from the plane, then circled forward, swinging around the rolling ladders, heading to its left beyond where the first red truck was parked … and circling again, now to the right behind both stationary trucks to take up its position next to the one with the lighted gauze heading into its fuel tank.†   (source)
  • He crouched in the shadows of the corner building, diagonally across from the two men in the stationary sedan.†   (source)
  • Bourne sat in the back seat of a stationary taxi, watching the front of the bank through the windshield.†   (source)
  • The land rolled like great stationary ground swells.†   (source)
  • And meanwhile the art of war has remained almost stationary for thirty or forty years.†   (source)
  • His feet remained stationary, but he moved the upper part of his body round and round, like somebody trying to see from behind a fat lady at a cinema, and uncertain which side of her gave the best view.†   (source)
  • After the probationary five years, Chang went on to explain, the process of retarding age would begin, and if successful, might give Conway half a century or so at the apparent age of forty--which was not a bad time of life at which to remain stationary.†   (source)
  • Before daylight we were stalled again and when it was light we were at a little rise in the ground and I saw the road of the retreat stretched out far ahead, everything stationary except for the infantry filtering through.†   (source)
  • The sun was shining brilliantly in a blue sky, but in the west, behind the mountain, lay a great stationary black cloud, opaque and motionless as a ledge of rock.†   (source)
  • At last he answered me coldly, with a cold lick of fire in his eyes, on the stationary wintriness of the black steel harness of the bridge over the dragging unnamable mixture of the river flowing backwards with its waste.†   (source)
  • But life is not stationary.†   (source)
  • The rock crystal forms mounted in such eloquent steps that the building did not seem stationary, but moving upward in a continuous flow—until one realized that it was only the movement of one's glance and that one's glance was forced to move in that particular rhythm.†   (source)
  • If this kind of thing goes on the population of England will be stationary in 1960.†   (source)
  • I ceased waving my hand, so that the shadow remained stationary.†   (source)
  • Their image was troubled as in a rippling sheet of water and then all became stationary again.†   (source)
  • Yonville-l'Abbaye has remained stationary in spite of its "new outlet."†   (source)
  • A stationary affection, in other words, was impossible—it must move one way or the other.†   (source)
  • Fix remained stationary in the same place, but did not sleep.†   (source)
  • Was it in motion, or stationary on the surface of the ocean, or sinking into the depths?†   (source)
  • The master looked up from his papers, and the clerk calmly remained in a stationary position.†   (source)
  • "Holloa!" cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few paces.†   (source)
  • So the Nautilus was lying on its starboard side, completely stationary to boot.†   (source)
  • For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that hideous sight is seen.†   (source)
  • Here the influence of the river current ceased, and she became, virtually, stationary.†   (source)
  • During that stationary instant, it poured forth its contents, in a bright, glancing sheet of flame.†   (source)
  • This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their stationary fright.†   (source)
  • The contest now grew warm and stationary.†   (source)
  • The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.†   (source)
  • In the orchestra stalls, the drugget covering them looked like an angry sea, whose glaucous waves had been suddenly rendered stationary by a secret order from the storm phantom, who, as everybody knows, is called Adamastor.†   (source)
  • He assigned her to a small drab room which contained a bed, a bureau, and a stationary washstand with one spigot.†   (source)
  • Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.†   (source)
  • The stationary range, hot and cold water, dumbwaiter, speaking tubes, and call-bell for the janitor pleased her very much.†   (source)
  • After this it would seem that the three took counsel together and halted, and the scouts who were watching them report that they remained absolutely stationary for the next half hour.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, however, she became aware that one of the passing shadows remained stationary between her line of vision and the gleaming asphalt; and raising her eyes she saw a young woman bending over her.†   (source)
  • Opening the pasture gate from the saddle, Emil rode across the field to the clearing where the thresher stood, driven by a stationary engine and fed from the header boxes.†   (source)
  • I turned back away from the park and struck into Park Road, intending to skirt the park, went along under the shelter of the terraces, and got a view of this stationary, howling Martian from the direction of St. John's Wood.†   (source)
  • Thus, by carrying this tackle to the windlass, I could raise and lower the end of the boom at will, the butt always remaining stationary, and, by means of guys, I could swing the boom from side to side.†   (source)
  • Susan became the stationary niece, delighted to be so; and equally well adapted for it by a readiness of mind, and an inclination for usefulness, as Fanny had been by sweetness of temper, and strong feelings of gratitude.†   (source)
  • I couldn't altogether make out why, myself, as we were not stationary here, being but comers and goers anywhere.†   (source)
  • The short, black-eyed man, with a cast of the swarthy Spaniard in his face, who rose repeatedly to make room for the belles of the village as they entered, was a son of Erin, who had lately left off his pack, and become a stationary trader in Templeton.†   (source)
  • …to resignation by the example of these good people, I cannot, although I am his biographer, undertake to affirm with any degree of confidence; but I can most distinctly say, that for many months he continued meekly to submit to the domination and ill-treatment of Noah Claypole: who used him far worse than before, now that his jealousy was roused by seeing the new boy promoted to the black stick and hatband, while he, the old one, remained stationary in the muffin-cap and leathers.†   (source)
  • Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket.†   (source)
  • But while opinion concerning him had remained nearly stationary, and his daily habits had presented scarcely any visible change, Marner's inward life had been a history and a metamorphosis, as that of every fervid nature must be when it has fled, or been condemned, to solitude.†   (source)
  • He knew that his safety depended altogether on keeping in motion; for a stationary object at that distance, would have been hit nearly every shot.†   (source)
  • Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.†   (source)
  • It is curious for a Frenchman, accustomed to a very different state of things, to hear the perpetual complaints which are made in the United States against the stationary propensities of legal men, and their prejudices in favor of existing institutions.†   (source)
  • But her ingenuity was at work to remedy the injury: while I ironed, or pursued other such stationary employments as I could not well do in the parlour, she would bring some pleasant volume and read it aloud to me.†   (source)
  • But it was stationary; and as the gentleman advanced into the light, I saw that he was some years older than when he had had his picture painted.†   (source)
  • The fact that a somewhat dilapidated blue one remained stationary above the unprotected bonnet attracted her attention, and looking up, she saw Mr. Bhaer looking down.†   (source)
  • She has now been a longer time stationary there, than she ever was before, and she begins to want change.†   (source)
  • Amongst these would-be fugitives, Jos remarked the Lady Bareacres and her daughter, who sate in their carriage in the porte-cochere of their hotel, all their imperials packed, and the only drawback to whose flight was the same want of motive power which kept Jos stationary.†   (source)
  • 'tis the stationary house, there being two; this, which never moves, and the other, that floats, being sometimes in one part of the lake and sometimes in another.†   (source)
  • Having expressed himself thus confidently, he reined his horse backward down the slope which he had ascended, and compelled him in the same manner to move backward through the lists, till he reached the northern extremity, where he remained stationary, in expectation of his antagonist.†   (source)
  • One solid stationary point in the looseness of this gentleman's character was, that he respected and admired his sister Amy.†   (source)
  • The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.†   (source)
  • Just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror, under the impression that they were about to be swept within the vortex at the foot of the cataract, the canoe floated, stationary, at the side of a flat rock, that lay on a level with the water.†   (source)
  • All the marvelous conclusions they have reached about the distances, weights, movements, and deflections of the heavenly bodies are only founded on the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies about a stationary earth, on that very motion I see before me now, which has been so for millions of men during long ages, and was and will be always alike, and can always be trusted.†   (source)
  • Soothed by my exertions, my method, and Herbert's compliments, I would sit with his symmetrical bundle and my own on the table before me among the stationary, and feel like a Bank of some sort, rather than a private individual.†   (source)
  • The hive has remained stationary, and they who flutter around the venerable straw are wont to claim the empty distinction of antiquity, regardless alike of the frailty of their tenement and of the enjoyments of the numerous and vigorous swarms that are culling the fresher sweets of a virgin world.†   (source)
  • Amongst a nation where aristocracy predominates in society, and keeps it stationary, the people in the end get as much accustomed to poverty as the rich to their opulence.†   (source)
  • Over my head ragged clouds were drifting past, and by an optical inversion they seemed stationary, while the steeple, the ball and I were all spinning along with fantastic speed.†   (source)
  • I like to be stationary.†   (source)
  • But whether they were moving or stationary, whether they were French or Russian, could not be discovered from the Shevardino Redoubt.†   (source)
  • The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans-Atlantic steamer.†   (source)
  • As though a criminal should be chained in a stationary boat on a deep clear river, condemned, whatever countless leagues of water flowed past him, always to see the body of the fellow-creature he had drowned lying at the bottom, immovable, and unchangeable, except as the eddies made it broad or long, now expanding, now contracting its terrible lineaments; so Arthur, below the shifting current of transparent thoughts and fancies which were gone and succeeded by others as soon as come,…†   (source)
  • Frequently, indeed, it would seem to be stationary, because other arts are making rapid strides towards perfection.†   (source)
  • Whether from indecision, or some other motive of hesitation, the champion of the day remained stationary for more than a minute, while the eyes of the silent audience were riveted upon his motions; and then, gradually and gracefully sinking the point of his lance, he deposited the coronet which it supported at the feet of the fair Rowena.†   (source)
  • Young Thomas and Sissy being both at such a stage of their working up, these changes were effected in a year or two; while Mr. Gradgrind himself seemed stationary in his course, and underwent no alteration.†   (source)
  • The chief, who had landed solely with the hope of acquiring renown, stood stationary, leaning against a tree, waiting the pleasure of his companions.†   (source)
  • I see that in a certain portion of the territory of the United States at the present day, the legal barrier which separated the two races is tending to fall away, but not that which exists in the manners of the country; slavery recedes, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.†   (source)
  • "Stationary you shall be then," I cried, now losing all patience, and for the first time in all my exasperating connection with him fairly flying into a passion.†   (source)
  • I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began to come towards us, and to grow and grow.†   (source)
  • His feet seemed equally reluctant to advance, or to remain stationary; his position bearing a great analogy to that of Mahomet's coffin, with the exception that the quality of repulsion rather than that of attraction held him in a state of rest.†   (source)
  • More than twenty times both the pursued and the pursuer glided by him, just without the reach of his oars, until he thought the best way to view the sport was to remain stationary, and, by watching a favorable opportunity, assist as much as he could in taking the victim.†   (source)
  • I admit that, in a democratic State thus constituted, society will not be stationary; but the impulses of the social body may be regulated and directed forwards; if there be less splendor than in the halls of an aristocracy, the contrast of misery will be less frequent also; the pleasures of enjoyment may be less excessive, but those of comfort will be more general; the sciences may be less perfectly cultivated, but ignorance will be less common; the impetuosity of the feelings will be…†   (source)
  • …of historical events this way or that; yet there is the same difference between a man who says that the people of the West moved on the East because Napoleon wished it and a man who says that this happened because it had to happen, as there is between those who declared that the earth was stationary and that the planets moved round it and those who admitted that they did not know what upheld the earth, but knew there were laws directing its movement and that of the other planets.†   (source)
  • Judith and Hetty had now discovered that something was wrong, and were stationary a thousand feet farther north.†   (source)
  • But here it was just as impossible to turn back as to go forward, because every passageway had closed behind us, and if our submersible remained even slightly stationary, it would be frozen in without delay.†   (source)
  • This was the temporary encampment of that portion of his people, who had long been hunting under the direction of Mahtoree, on those grounds which separated the stationary abodes of his nation, from those of the warlike tribes of the Pawnees.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bounderby had taken possession of a house and grounds, about fifteen miles from the town, and accessible within a mile or two, by a railway striding on many arches over a wild country, undermined by deserted coal-shafts, and spotted at night by fires and black shapes of stationary engines at pits' mouths.†   (source)
  • I speak not only of the generals, but of the non-commissioned officers, who have most of them been stationary, or have only advanced step by step.†   (source)
  • In this manner the cutter set slowly out into the lake, until she had got as far as the river current would carry her, when she became stationary, waiting for the usual land-breeze.†   (source)
  • A few minutes sufficed, however, to carry the canoe the necessary distance, when both the young men ceased paddling as it were by instinctive consent, and the boat became stationary.†   (source)
  • Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.†   (source)
  • "Judging of the future by the past," says Mr. Cass, "we cannot err in anticipating a progressive diminution of their numbers, and their eventual extinction, unless our border should become stationary, and they be removed beyond it, or unless some radical change should take place in the principles of our intercourse with them, which it is easier to hope for than to expect.†   (source)
  • One blow of his keen knife severed the rope which held the boat, and then the cutter glanced ahead, leaving the light bubble of bark, which instantly lost its way, almost stationary.†   (source)
  • In democracies men are never stationary; a thousand chances waft them to and fro, and their life is always the sport of unforeseen or (so to speak) extemporaneous circumstances.†   (source)
  • A large black ball, which at first seemed stationary, now began to move in a manner that to the latter was inexplicable.†   (source)
  • The Nautilus was stationary.†   (source)
  • She remained stationary until the Ark had pulled in near the encampment, as has been related in the preceding chapter, when she resumed the paddle and with cautious strokes made the best of her way towards the western shore.†   (source)
  • Amongst aristocratic nations every man is pretty nearly stationary in his own sphere; but men are astonishingly unlike each other—their passions, their notions, their habits, and their tastes are essentially different: nothing changey, but everything differs.†   (source)
  • The potato was tossed, the rifle cracked,—it was remarked just as the little black ball seemed stationary in the air, for the marksman evidently took unusual heed to his aim,—and then a look of disappointment and wonder succeeded among those who caught the falling target.†   (source)
  • This pause is, indeed, only apparent, for time does not stop its course for nations any more than for men; they are all advancing towards a goal with which they are unacquainted; and we only imagine them to be stationary when their progress escapes our observation, as men who are going at a foot-pace seem to be standing still to those who run.†   (source)
  • At the same moment his companions suspended their efforts, and the chasing canoes clustered together, and became stationary.†   (source)
  • The Ark turned slowly round under this restraint, and when it was quite stationary, Hetty was seen at its stern, pointing into the water, the tears streaming from her eyes, in ungovernable natural feeling.†   (source)
  • In certain remote corners of the Old World you may still sometimes stumble upon a small district which seems to have been forgotten amidst the general tumult, and to have remained stationary whilst everything around it was in motion.†   (source)
  • …the increase of the population of the lesser country be to that of the greater in an exact inverse ratio of the proportion between the new and the old numbers of all the representatives, the number of the representatives of Virginia will remain stationary; and if the increase of the Virginian population be to that of the whole Union in a feeblerratio than the new number of the representatives of the Union to the old number, the number of the representatives of Virginia must decrease.†   (source)
  • Recovering his recollection on the instant, instead of sounding an alarm, which might prove fatal to himself, he remained stationary, an attentive observer of the other's motions.†   (source)
  • The Mohican remained stationary as the rock on which he stood full ten minutes; and then it was apparent that something of interest had occurred within his view, for he drew back with a hurried manner, looked anxiously and keenly along the margin of the stream, and moved quickly down it, taking care to lose his trail in the shallow water.†   (source)
  • As soon as the canoe was out of sight, and that occurred ere the paddles had given a dozen strokes, Deerslayer made the best dispositions he could to keep the ark as nearly stationary as possible; and then he sat down in the end of the scow, to chew the cud of his own bitter reflections.†   (source)
  • A few birds hovered over the leafy bosom of the valley, frightened from their secluded nests; and here and there a light vapory cloud, which seemed already blending with the atmosphere, arose above the trees, and indicated some spot where the struggle had been fierce and stationary.†   (source)
  • In aristocracies men are separated from each other by lofty stationary barriers; in democracies they are divided by a number of small and almost invisible threads, which are constantly broken or moved from place to place.†   (source)
  • At that moment a cry from the forecastle drew all eyes towards the point on the eastern side of the outlet, and there, just without the range of shot from the light guns of the works, with her canvas reduced to barely enough to keep her stationary, lay the Montcalm, evidently in waiting for their appearance.†   (source)
  • For the duties incumbent on the legislator differ at different times; the goal towards which the human race ought ever to be tending is alone stationary; the means of reaching it are perpetually to be varied.†   (source)
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